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Oct 12, 2004
10/04
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tobias kazumichi grime
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Kazumichi Grime's latest outings sound as uploads from an ab-original databank, from something like a hard disk made of organic matter. An undefinable sense of ancienity exudes from within these soundworks. By whichever means of digital chemistry these are derived; to whatever strains the pre-digitalised material which are the building bricks of these pieces were exposed: the resultant sounds reappear like aural specimens dug up by a sonic paleontologist bent on uncovering the primal...
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Topic: lowercase
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1,501
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Apr 12, 2005
04/05
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Arturas Bumsteinas
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With the viscerality of the best pre-Velvet pump-organ dronings (or is it rather the sound of the ru-be, the reed instrument of the south-east asian Ma-peoples), energized with the wholly contemporary dynamics of a dj-set and sparkling with the post-neurotic kinetics of glitch (very much like a good champagne), no simple feelings will completely convey the affect that Arturas Bumsteinas' latest piece brings about (and i haven't even mentioned the title yet, casting it's elliptic semiotic shadow...
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Topic: contemporary chamber music
Source: www.con-v.org
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This piece was developed as a result of a series of interviews published by Binaural Media. These texts examined how various practitioners contextualised their work with environmental sound. Mark McLaren (co-curator of the excellent Sijis label and regular collaborator on Resonance FM) decided to test out some of the many ideas and questions that were generated during discussions with Marc Behrens, Yannick Dauby, Derek Holzer, Francisco Lopez, Chris Watson and Julian Weaver. 'More Than...
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Topics: concrete music, phonography, electroacoustic
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May 22, 2005
05/05
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thanos chrysakis
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A heavenly flux; a waltz of the stars; a cosmic birdsong instantly silenced when intruded upon. Nonetheless, a probe has been secretly nested within the spheres of heaven, registering upon their resumption the movements of these electrostatic entities. Their song, strands unraveling in the weavings of time  each strand becoming, graciously, a wormhole, an inscape into the self. Thanatos, death, is stripped of its sting by this redeeming audition of the mantric self-expression laid bare in the...
Topic: lowercase
Source: www.con-v.org
1,564
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Sep 9, 2005
09/05
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dave fyans
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Originally, "Blown" was created on a modular synthesizer, using basic sound gnerating and shaping components to build a complex and dense environment. The environments were then recorded to computer at 44kHz/16 Bit audio and then transferred to an ageing Akai M-8, quarter inch analogue tape machine. Due to both the age and general disrepair of the tapes and the equipment, the audio has been coloured and treated by the decaying magnetic filaments of the tape and the machines valve...
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Topic: drone
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10,948
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Feb 25, 2005
02/05
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Meri von Kleinsmid
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Seattle based artist Meri von Kleinsmid bring us this short, but intense e.p., recorded during the spring of the last year. Three tracks plus a remix; a brief release offered to all our con-v visitors as a little "thank you". : ) Trained on clasical music, she is working in electroacoustic pieces since her earlier teenagehood ("have a Spinach salad..." 1986). She has collaborated with sound artist Alex Keller on Cd "Searching for the inverse square" among other...
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Topic: Experimental
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1,760
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Jul 24, 2007
07/07
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danny kreutzfeldt / jason corder
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Shelter's End is the moniker for a new collaboration of Danny Kreutzfeldt & Jason Corder. Danny Kreutzfeldt has already released numerous releases under his own name as well as under a plethora of aliases. Jason Corder as well has released under his own name, in addition to releasing under two further aliases. Comparing the oeuvre of the respective artists, the conclusion here seems to be that Danny Kreutzfeldt is in charge of the foundational work (in this case: sonically recreating the...
Topic: electroacoustic
Source: www.con-v.org
552
552
Sep 30, 2006
09/06
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Dan Warburton
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'A Walk Through M' is the fifth in a series of 'Walks' - brief electroacoustic compositions sourced exclusively in field recordings made on location. The 'M' in the title here refers to the village of Mouthiers-Haute-Pierre, in the Doubs department in Eastern France close to the Swiss border, where the source recordings were made on August 16th 2004. liner notes by Dan Warburton
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6,052
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Mar 28, 2005
03/05
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thomas ekelund
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The title of Thomas Ekelund's outing on Con-v ( his first online release in four years! ) is just a possible frame of reference for what sounds like an (albeit wholly deconstructed) guitar which initiates the work. (Is there a more archetypical songsters instrument than the guitar imaginable?) But what is heard is not another one of THOSE songs: this dirge of rusty, acidic spilling out of dead words sounds like fate itself (sonically personified as a primordial entity out of Lovecraft's...
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Topic: minimalism / drone
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audio
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Though these numbers do not represent the average age of this quartet‘s members, they actually refer to the certain transitional period from what we know as 20th century, with its modernistic (in the neutral sense of this word) outlook, to what is happening right now, as well as what may happen tomorrow. Performance of this ensemble could be called concert as exhibition, or a retrospect of graphic musical notation extended with the graphical materials of non-musical origin, that are read as...
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Topic: computer music / contemporary
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K. M. Krebs delivers five solid compositions of electroacoustic/ambient artistry with "The Blue Concubine". A mark of his signature style, Krebs melds and juxtaposes organic sounds with electronic sounds to build a highly listenable album of deep electro-organic ambiance. Applying his own unique take on contemporary musique concrète, manipulations of concrete sounds and abstract electronics are woven into a collection of richly textured works full of intensity and emotion. This is an...
Topic: electroacoustic
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2,913
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Sep 16, 2005
09/05
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Anla Courtis, Pablo Reche
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"Transistores de aire" is the first collaborative release between two of the best Argentinean experimental artists nowaddays: Anla Courtis (guitarrist of the essential, well-known experimental band Reynols) and Pablo Reche, a drone/noise master, with apparences in festivals as Mutek (2005) and Sonar (2000). Recorded during the summer of 2005 in Buenos Aires, "transistores de aire" is a long, subtle, obscure and minimal drone, a piece without any kind of condiments, envelopes...
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Topic: drone
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4,959
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Feb 13, 2005
02/05
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fabrice planquette
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French artist Fabrice Planquette works on electronic and electro-acoustic music since 1995. His name is well-known in the netlabels scene because of his releases on Entity (as Element Act, Acta and FP), Enourghrecords and others, a multitalented artist for who there's hardly any line of sound-based work that hasn't been covered. Musique pour Dans la solitude des champs du coton is a work composed originally in 2003 for the company of theater La Soufflerie, on a text by Bernard-Marie Koltès ....
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Topics: Ambient, Electroacoustic
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Sep 30, 2005
09/05
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asher
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The well known fact of the Inuits having access to more than 13 (or was it 30?) terms for 'snow' comes to mind on the apperception of this release. As the title already hints at, these tracks appear to represent a spectrum of blue both more wide and deep than ordinary english can communicate. A blue note resounding from the movement of the spheres, this is a buddhist blue - a deep-listening experience into melancholy; the sonic aura of the qualified nothingness at the essence of illumination....
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Topic: lowercase
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1,712
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Feb 21, 2006
02/06
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rodrigues, sehnaoui, sehnaoui
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Ernesto Rodrigues has, of all players in the field of non-idiomatic improv, been the most manifest on the internet, with what is now already his third net-label release (also having his music out on ctrl-alt-canc and Stasisfield). Within this present constellation (together with Libanese avantists Christine & Sharif Sehnaoui) a musical universe is conjured which, lacking any figurative tendencies, can be characterised as a very hylic affair - dealing as it does with the 'lowest' portion of...
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1,716
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audio
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Vibraphone anomaly intravenous evenings disperse pellucid ampersands Diaphanous polyphony peals lanced garden cuff squashed cerulean brocade koan bromide wrist demitasse insole chanson chantilly jeremiad tumescent cadaver ensign unremitting tautology hydrangea ossify benign cud acacia cordials febrile miscreant puffin column periwinkle bijou perjure goring edelweiss Pilgrim grapes glimpsed in the oaks of an incandescent fold. Striation trace seedlings freshly plastered hamlet. Baking charcoal...
Topic: electroacoustic improvisation
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4,718
4.7K
Nov 11, 2005
11/05
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christian toonk
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The basic idea for "unison" is the phenomenon of binaural tones. When the distance between congruence frequencies is changed, pulsations occur. Here, Dutch artist Christian Toonk (vinculated to the Utrecht based collective Umatic among others projects) uses a self build instrument based on sinewave oscillators and feedback loops. The output is rewired to the input and provides a somewhat unpredictable datastream, by means of creating an opponent to interact to as in collaboration....
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Topic: microsound
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2,415
2.4K
Jun 7, 2005
06/05
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jeff surak
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Veteran and well-known Washington DC based experimental artist Violet (Jeff Surak) presents on con-v this long track, his latest work; "okraina" is a nocturnal piece, a trip to the end of night. " Okraina was constructed from field recordings made in December 2003 while on tour in Russia and Ukraine. Gas heated kitchen pipes, men sleeping in a train compartment, passing trains, light bulbs, soviet refrigerators, train toilets are the sources. The sounds where minimally mixed and...
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Topics: Field Recordings, Electroacoustic
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1,362
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Jul 11, 2005
07/05
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Eric Bollman
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Whatever echoes fibrillate in the undulations of our neuronal fields? Memory faces up to itself in this one question: how did memory bring us here? Memory, the forgotten one - under the sway of the scythe of bliss memory flexes over in synaptic delusion to the experience of senselessness that only audition can bestow. It comes as the gift of angels to listen to this world while immersed in such oblivion. Without recall of what vistas we have passed, we are awakened in a dream so far off...
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Topics: Microsound, Ambient, Electroacoustic
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3,214
3.2K
Aug 13, 2005
08/05
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Brian Lavelle
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_________________ The Houses of the Russians was composed during 2004 entirely of locally recorded field recordings manipulated using Max/MSP on a PowerBook G4. Each of the pieces is a live improvisation, without overdubs or further post-recording sound processing. Like the eponymous dwellings, the six segments of this work are deliberately unnatural and out of place; they exist as nebulous entities, storm clouds born of confusion - 'Their houses are supposed to be unlucky, and no one goes near...
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Topic: microsound
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2,971
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Aug 18, 2004
08/04
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johan gustavsson
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A new release by Johan Gustavsson (Tsukimono, Scraps on Tape, Broken Concrete), this time appearing again under the moniker of Mnoki. "trees in movement" is his second release under this name, a work inspired by the paints of the vienan artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Johan's different aliases appear as different strategies for (re-)telling the digital narrative. For Mnoki, this narrative progresses in a non-linear way: at the edge of time a dam is put up to thwart the flow in favor...
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Topic: Lowercase
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2,338
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Jul 11, 2004
07/04
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Somniscope
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Conv introduces a new section dedicated to release experimental audiovisuals works. Somniscope is a geographically dislocated collaboration of Liam Frankland from Suffolk, England and Dave Fyans of Perth, Scotland. Following their recent exhibition at Perth Festival of Arts 2004, the duo give to us "Treasured Seconds", a series of six, short episodes focused from their conjoined point of view, exploring the world about them through the means of psychogeography, stills, animation and...
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1,559
1.6K
Nov 30, 2005
11/05
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christopher mcfall
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This is the debut release by Kansas City based artist Christopher McFall " I strive to use computer-based techniques to manipulate/engineer recorded aspects of the macroscopic world into a microscopic mosaic. I feel that the 3 compositions comprising "A Starved-Strafe Lancing Machine," are of a minimal and microscopic nature that is the outcome of several years of experimentation with field recordings, whereby sounds are recorded and then often times engineered beyond...
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Topic: microsound
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811
811
Dec 15, 2005
12/05
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russell - prevost - mattin
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Conv is proud to present this electroacustic live session (london, summer 2004) by these three well-known gentlemen of the free improvisation: Bruce Russell, Eddie Prevost and Mattin, three different generations in an unique event. Together this threesome of post-materialist thinkers compose a sinewy orchestra-piece of skin, bones, creaking seats, sharpened fingernails & sharpened nerves. Investigating and penetrating their materials by means of cutting, bowing, scraping, raking, breaking,...
Topics: free improvisation, electroacoustic
Source: www.con-v.org
9,819
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Jan 2, 2005
01/05
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Julie Rousse
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In these pieces by Julie Rousse the movement remains suspended between the sole coordinates of the anticipated momentary release predetermined by the advent of the inevitable breakdown of the system/machine. The sounds she produces, evoke a perpetual loosening of fixed coordinates, an incessant structural slippage under the constraints of enduring narrative duress. Under that inhumane narrative which motivates, melds and constrains every element of the societal structure the only interest is...
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Topic: Electroacoustic
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19,925
20K
Aug 20, 2006
08/06
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various artists
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"Con-vpilation" is Conv's thirty-third virtual release since going online in February 2004, and it is a milestone in the netlabel’s history for several reasons. As the title implies, this is Conv’s first compilation album. In being a compilation, it features an impressive roster of eleven international artists, representing both genders, each of whom has enriched the contemporary world of electronic/electro-acoustic/experimental/avant-garde music in her/his own distinct way. Also...
Topic: electroacoustic and beyond
Source: www.con-v.org
4,533
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Jul 24, 2006
07/06
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albert casais
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It seems as though there isn't much room left for dance music in the current avant-obsessed and cut-throat world of experimental electronic music, but New Jersey resident Albert Casais is keeping the party going with his funk-infused Omnid project. Using an array of cutting edge software and his trusty Nord Lead, Casais creates a lyrical, but cold and robotic journey through abstraction, culminating in the slippery rhythms of 'milikk'--chunked trash beats cemented by a dizzying lead, endlessly...
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Topic: microsound
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2,004
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Mar 6, 2004
03/04
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mark allan
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T.a.f. series; an exploration of harmonies thru a series of generative algorithms derived from traditional chinese/japanese music. A small collection of music performed and created 100% with the puredata language. T.a.f. is an exquisite experiment; six subtle, slowly evolving lo-fi ambient pieces. The best of u.k. ambient tradition (Eno, Aphex) meets Basinski. Mark Allan is 50% of Beatwife.
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Topics: Lo-Fi, Ambient
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6,524
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Jun 26, 2004
06/04
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Pablo Reche
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Reche is currently one of the best argentinian avant-garde sound artists. He has played live in many countries and events (Sónar festival 2000, etc) and his music has been released on labels all around the world. His work has been defined as a good example of noise, isolationism and post-industrial sound. Close to white noise, Reche builds structurated ambiences whole of distorted sounds, filtered textures and manipulated stuff taken from field recordings, cd's and vinyls. Pablo Reche works...
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Topics: Noise, Isolationism
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4,486
4.5K
Sep 5, 2004
09/04
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Henrik Olsson, Anders Dahl
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Media artist Anders Dahl (with releases on Komplott and Underhund) and percussion improviser Henrik Olsson (of Sheriff -Häpna- and Gul 3) create out of sober means (no mystery here: just see the track titles) a sound-world richly evocative of a buddhist temple ritual for the digital age - or, leading us even further abroad, into as yet unmarked and apocryphal ethnological territories as non-descript as the environmental sounds which constitute the backdrop to these elusive goings-on. Or is...
Topics: Chamber Music, Electroacoustic
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802
802
Nov 5, 2004
11/04
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Heribert Friedl
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CONVERGE, the title of Heribert Friedl's latest composition serves perfectly to underline the artist's conceptual approach to music. Distinct, fragile sounds, at times crumbling, at times rustling and droning, all move towards the same point within an organic micro-audio space. Friedl's understanding of sculpturing material in space is strongly reflected in his treatment of sounds. The quality of each sound, like the delicate sound of metal grinding or the subtle rustling of leafs, is shaped...
Topic: Microsound
Source: www.con-v.org
892
892
Mar 16, 2010
03/10
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juan jose calarco
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"By recordings of devices and their mechanical sighs, isolating some tiny elemental events, dynamic phases & recurrences, Juan José Calarco gradually weaves a complex and bewitching topography, as if suddenly one could touch the night in motion, and perceive all the tones even from the inert things... This is just a study of subtle transitions, contrasts, exsudations, and a reassemblage of stunning strength..." [ Daniel Crokaert ]
Topic: field recordings
Source: www.con-v.org
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Jan 11, 2007
01/07
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sascha neudeck
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This new sound output [seroton] of sascha neudeck (biochemist and musician, based in vienna) is to carry out a test by the idea of different drone-interpretations. It is more a collection of different quotations in doing with such these topics. The result is quite different to his previous work, which was more noise- and random-oriented. This new section is quite a try to arrange such these things - from totally abstract elements to poetic narrative parts. Different ideas come out from an...
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Topic: microsound
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3,344
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Mar 22, 2004
03/04
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Elín Anna Steinarsdóttir
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"One winter's night, ... " is the second release of Elín Anna Steinarsdóttir, from Reykjavik (Iceland). A long piece (22 minutes) that works as a perfect sequel of her first album released on Entity ("Impressions"). In this work, Elín deepens all the elements that are latent in her previous production: field recordings, found sounds, noise waves, electronic textures. The use of the dramatisation and her conceptual sense allows her to build bridges between different...
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Topic: Electroacoustic
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5,071
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Jan 28, 2006
01/06
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kevin m. krebs
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brand new release by this well-known Canadian sound artist. 'Absolutely Ignorant' was inspired by an excerpt from the Venerable Bede's work " Ecclesiastical History of the English People" which focuses on the ultimate fallibility of human knowledge concerning the fundamental questions that confront us. As Red as Rubies (2004) A reconstructed and extended excerpt of an as yet unreleased CD which explores sonifications around the ideas of alchemy. The fundamental concept of alchemy is...
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Topic: electroacoustic improvisation
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922
922
Oct 27, 2005
10/05
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mattin
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London based Basque feedbacker Mattin has gained an excellent reputation as improviser in the last few years, performing regulary with well-known reductionists as Mark Wastell and Radu Malfatti and veterans as Eddie Prevost (AMM) on their project Sakada. "Abuse Divisons" is a unique track, a composition finished a week ago in Vienna; again, Mattin resembles the approach of the more radical electroacoustic improvisers just working with the endless dicotomy noise-silence. Special thanks...
Topic: digital noise
Source: www.con-v.org
13,534
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Apr 18, 2004
04/04
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Scott Taylor
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Conv is proud to present "Winter Sunday", a five track ep written and produced by Scott Taylor (Touch, Phonography, Sijis). Based on field recordings made in Barcelona (around the old cathedral), Paris (Notre Damme cathedral organ) and London, this work should be considered secular music in its basis and intent. These elements were elaborated and trasformed in organics compositions where each track developes a sound environment. Ambient, isolationism... quite space; on this recording...
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Topics: Ambient, Isolationism, phonography
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816
816
Apr 27, 2006
04/06
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cheapmachines
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"Latitude" - freedom from normal restraints in conduct; scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction. A linear progression through processed field recordings, sinewaves, amplified metal objects, white noise and feedback. Composed and recorded late 2005, final mix/edit early 2006 by Phil Julian.
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Topic: noise
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'I was in a bush, when I heard lot of sounds (a dog, some sheeps and goats and donkeys, and lot of bells). I went in the direction of the sounds and suddenly the dog started bark. I was near him and in few minutes we was friends. After an hour the shepherd arrived, because an imminent storm; he was a bit upset because of the dog was not aggressive with me. The shepherd, to shelter the sheeps, grew up the fence, but the sheeps was used to the old small fence. Only the goats and the donkeys went...
Topic: phonography
Source: www.con-v.org
